Making Games: The Politics and Poetics of Game Creation Tools (Playful Thinking)

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An argument that production tools shape the aesthetics and political economy of games as an expressive medium.

In Making Games, Stefan Werning considers the role of tools (primarily but not exclusively software), their design affordances, and the role they play as sociotechnical actors. Drawing on a wide variety of case studies, Werning argues that production tools shape the aesthetics and political economy of games as an expressive medium. He frames game-making as a (meta)game in itself and shows that tools, like games, have their own “procedural rhetoric” and should not always be conceived simply in terms of optimization and best practices.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B089429MP7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press (February 16, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 16, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1742 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 170 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0262044838